Daily Wisdom Saying

[JJM]

Men are respectable only as they respect.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JJM]

Integrity is never painless.

-M. Scott Peck

[Vajradhara]

Wealthy patrons invited Ikkyu to a banquet. Ikkyu arrived dressed in his beggars robes. The host, not recognizing him, chased him away. Ikkyu went home, change into his ceremonial robe of purple brocade, and returned. With great respect, he was received into the banquet room. There, he put his robe on the cushion, saying, "I expect you invited the robe since you showed me away a little while ago." and left.

~Zen story

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. - Anon, seen on a "mesage board" outside a local Catholic High School

Ham and eggs - a days work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig - seen on a t-shirt

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[okami]

"When Tao is lost, there is stil Natural Goodness.
When Natural Goodness is lost, there is still Kindness.
When Kindness is lost, there is still Justice.
When Justice is lost, there are only social niceties,
And these are neither genuine nor honest:
Then all is lost."
-- Lao Tzu

[Avinash]

SHIVOPADESHA 10

Aatmasthitam Shivam tyaktvaa vahistham yah samarcayet
Hastastham pindamutsrjya brahmate jiivitaashayaa
- Shiva Samhitaa

[One who looks for Shiva in the external world, ignoring the Shiva in the internal world,
Is like one who throws away the rice that is in one's hand and wanders from door to door in search of one's livelihood.]

(From: Namah Shivaya Shantaya by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, Pg 243)

[Vajradhara]

We have to undertand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye.... the hand is the cutting edge of the mind.


Jacob Bronowski

[juantoo3]

"It's not how long your pole is, it's how you wiggle your worm."

-fisherman's proverb

[Vajradhara]

There is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so.

~Shakespeare

[thorn]

i would like to add to the song:


i am the moon.

i am the stars.

i am the flies.





i have a thousand eyes.







~ some bum lighting his cigarette.

[Vajradhara]

Truth is not greater or lesser, but people are shallow or deep.


~Dogen

[Zazen]

Know the other, know yourself,
And the victory will not be at risk;
Know the ground, know the natural conditions,
And the victory can be total.

Sun Tzu-the art of war

[Vajradhara]

All the world is merry as a holiday
or as if climbing to a vista in spring.
I alone seem listless and still,
as one without desire -
like an infant which has not yet smiled;
dejected and forlorn, like one with no home.

All the world has enough - and more.
I alone seem to have lost everything.

My mind is that of a fool,
lost in a cloud of indiscerning.


People on the street are bright and knowing.
I alone seem in the dark.

The people are sharp and discriminate.
I alone make no distinctions.

I drift about, at sea, with nowhere to rest.
All the world has a goal.
I alone seem aimless and unable,
like a rustic new to the city.


I alone seem different from the world,
because I value the food of the Dao.

-- Laozi

[Vajradhara]

When aware that the content of awareness is empty, empty awareness is complete. When hearing the content of hearing is finite, finite hearing does not remain.

Even if you can see in this way, you are already involved in process. Has it not be said, "If feelings retain notions of the holy, this is still involvment in external objects; if the idea of self is not forgotten, it's the same as leaking."

How could it be possible to suppose that discoursing on the mind and nature and lecturing on Zen and the path are effective vehicles to the source?

Wu-chien

[Vajradhara]

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions;

reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

~Simone Weil